Hamburg took advantage of St. Pauli s draw with Paderborn, while Karel Garaets lost his first game as Schalke head coach, and Fortuna Düsseldorf came from 3-0 down to beat Kaiserslautern in their first Fortuna For All game where nobody paid for a ticket.
Hamburg can still clinch an automatic promotion spot when they go to relegated Sandhausen on the final day of the 2022/23 Bundesliga 2 season on Sunday (kick-off: 3.30pm CEST).